
This Paragliding Course covers...........
Take off techniques
- Alpine launch
- Reverse launch
- Stop acceleration when instructed
- C riser controls
- How to Avoid plucking at Take-off
Long flights
- Wind and weather analysis
- Site assessment
- Soring flights
- Active flying techniques
- Weight shift turns
- 360° turns
- Rear riser controls
- Use of speed bar
- Maintaining trajectory and drift
- Right of way traffic rules
Independent landings
- wind direction at ground level
- Figure 8 turns
- S turns
- over shooting procedure
- undershooting procedure
- Avoiding obstacles during landing
- final approach
- Flair timing
- Radio check safety procedure
Theory
- Air flow and Angle of attack (AOA)
- Principles of flight
- Why the glider turns
- Pitch, Roll, Yaw
- Speeds calculation (ground, air, wind)
- Inner and outer lines when flying
- Restriction points
- Gaining height
- Air regulations/ law
- Airspace classifications
- Human factors, physical and psychological​
- Reserve deployment procedure
- Radio usage
- Examination tips
Meteorology
- Pressure differences
- Temperature differences
- Humidity
- Fronts
- Dew point and clouds
- Site analysis
- Coastal winds
- venturis and compression in different terrains
- Clouds
- Cloud flying regulations
- Turbulence from terrain, thermals, sheers, and wake
- Where not to fly
- weather forecasting methods
- Skew-T reading



